John was appointed as Group Chief Executive on 1 September 2004, prior to which he had been Group Deputy Chief Executive from 1 January 2004.

He held the position of Group Finance Director from 2000 until the end of 2003. John joined the Executive Committee in September 1996 and was appointed to the Board in June 1998.

He was Chief Executive of Retail Financial Services from 1998 to 2000 and Chairman of the Asset Management Division from 1995 to 1998.

John is a non-executive director of pharmaceuticals company AstraZeneca PLC. He is also Chairman of Business Action on Homelessness, President of the Employers' Forum on Disability, President of the UK Drug Policy Commission and a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

John is married and a father to two children

Lawrence James, Raj Aggarwal, John Varley and
Alun Davies, at the 08 March event.

Kathy Brown, Kathy Kenyon, Vince Hopkins, Ilke Bingel.

Philip Kaye, Graham Morgan, Richard Brice, Ben Powell.

Phil Cartledge, Neil Taylor, Jason Llewellyn, Martyn Sheppard.


Emma Borrington, Simon Davies, Sarah Clewett,
Martin Pursall.


Angela Gilchrist, Gareth Morris, Chris McHale, Paul Sturgess.


Kerily Joakit, Lauri Leek, Angela Marshall, Pat Crimpt.

Photographs © Richard Bosworth